I’d like to know what would have happened if the Library of Alexandria hadn’t been destroyed. If even the works of Archimedes alone—including the key insight underlying Integral Calculus—had survived longer and been more widely disseminated, what difference would that have made to the future progress of mathematics and technology?
I’d like to know what would have happened if the Library of Alexandria hadn’t been destroyed. If even the works of Archimedes alone—including the key insight underlying Integral Calculus—had survived longer and been more widely disseminated, what difference would that have made to the future progress of mathematics and technology?